 1880, author-lecturer Helen Keller, who lived most of her life without sight or hearing, was born in Alabama. 1942, the FBI announced the arrest of eight Nazi saboteurs, but ashore in Florida in Long Island, New York. 1944, during World War II, American forces liberated the French port of Cherbourg from the Germans. 1950, the UN Security Council passed a resolution calling on member nations to help South Korea repel an invasion from the North.